The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion ...
Coded language trend: Euphemisms such as “when it finally happens” are widely used to reference Trump without naming him, blending humor with political tension. Algorithms and speech: The rise of ...
George ORWELL’s essay “Politics and the English Language”, published in 1946, took aim at the bureaucrats, academics and hacks who obfuscated their misdeeds in vague, jargon-packed writing.